So look, things are obviously not great right now.

I think we tried to capture the spirit of the moment in our Forrest Gump episode.

I think we're going to channel it a little bit more in this one, albeit in a slightly different way.

I mean, look, what do I even say?

I mean, I was saying to Will before we started recording, I really think we are collectively moving into a new and I think more precarious and probably

scary and uncertain time. And I know that that's something people have been saying for,

you know, five or six years. I know that it maybe felt that way to some people in 2016 when

Donald Trump was elected. I don't know if you ever read a little book called Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs. She laid it all out for you. And did you pay attention? No. But I mean,

I really think so in a way that perhaps people aren't, many people aren't psychologically

prepared for. I mean, I think there is a combination of things happening at the moment. You know,

I think the political situation in the world's most powerful country, I think there is a combination of things happening at the moment. You know, I think the political

situation in the world's most powerful country, I think the balance of forces there, you know,

is such now that things are going to get very bad very, very quickly in a way that they actually

didn't get. I mean, things are going to move in a bad direction more quickly than they did when

Donald Trump was actually

president. On top of that, people are almost honestly not noticing it because, I mean, the Supreme

Court decision is overshadowing things so much. But I mean, there is a kind of remilitarization

that is happening and a kind of a global realignment. I mean, we're seeing the beginnings of

the return of a bipolar world triggered,

although probably not definitively rooted in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Finland and Sweden

joining NATO in this kind of grotesque deal with Turkey. There's rearmament happening. On top of that,

there's this inflation crisis. And I mean, when inflation, when there was kind of the inflation crisis of the 1970s,

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